OT Remember when CD drives were connected to sound cards?

[John Doe]

Or maybe that was just Creative Labs? I guess it was my first CD drive. It
came in a large decorated box that included a sound card, a CD-ROM drive,
and maybe something else. I stopped at the store's snack bar area and
opened it before leaving. Lots of jumpers to configure of course. Boxes for
that stuff are much smaller now.

 

[Z]

Although I did not get into computers until about the year 2000 or so...
I soon got interested in vintage machines and worked on quite a few with
those types of cdroms.

One evening I tried to install win95 on a Packard Bell 486 with a sound card
cdrom...
The boot disk recognized it...it must have been a custom boot disk made for
the machine.

Anyway, by the next morning, when I woke up...
Win95 was still not installed. It must have been at least 8 hours or more.

I gave up and just installed win95 from 29 floppies...
that took maybe two hours or so !!!

Excuse me, should you say "I had not got into ... until ..." and
"tried installing ..."?
phrase and grammar is not my strong suit ya know?

 

[John Doe]

Excuse me, should you say "I had not got into ... until ..." and
"tried installing ..."?
phrase and grammar is not my strong suit ya know?

I like both original expressions. For the first, I suppose you could say "I
had not gotten into..." For the second, again the meaning is perfectly
clear, but your "tried installing" might be good.

What really matters is that the writer is communicating. If you want expert
advice on English usage and you can handle the confusion/complexities, try
(alt.usage.English). They do not bite.

 

[Z]

Or maybe that was just Creative Labs? I guess it was my first CD drive. It
came in a large decorated box that included a sound card, a CD-ROM drive,
and maybe something else. I stopped at the store's snack bar area and
opened it before leaving. Lots of jumpers to configure of course. Boxes for
that stuff are much smaller now.

there may be an ISA or a PCI slot on the sound card for the connection
with the CD-ROM more 15 years ago, but when I was googling it I could
not get any result. the CD-ROM can always serve as a CD players, and
you can even only connect it with speakers and a power supply to play
CDs. on the back of the CD-ROM there is a interface which is to be
connected to the sound with an audio cable to play the sound from CDs
through the sound card when the internal bus speed(PIO) is not high
enough or the CPU is not computable enough, I'm not very sure of the
reason. But you should know that there is a strong Electro Magnetic
Interference in the computer case so the audio cable is not a good
choice for playing CDs which cable transfers analog signals. Whereas
the earlier computers cannot play CDs through the digital transfer
mode which requires a function of DMA(Direct Media Access) that runs
at a higher speed than the PIO mode and transfers digital signals. So
you could not play CDs on computers if you had not connect the CD-ROM
with the sound card at that time.

 

[Z]

Or maybe that was just Creative Labs? I guess it was my first CD drive. It
came in a large decorated box that included a sound card, a CD-ROM drive,
and maybe something else. I stopped at the store's snack bar area and
opened it before leaving. Lots of jumpers to configure of course. Boxes for
that stuff are much smaller now.

Ah, just google "cdrom sound card 486", and I've found these:

http://www.flaterco.com/kb/DFI486/index.html
"In another bad omen, the CD-ROM was cabled to an IDE interface on a
sound card with the same branding (Aztech). The sound card does not
have a generic CD-ROM interface like some later models have; instead,
it has three separate IDE-ish headers labelled Sony, Mitsumi, and
Panasonic"

http://www.cdrom-guide.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-99262.html
"There are no IDE ports on the motherboard. Its a 486 and the CDROM
plugs into the sound card."

I'v read an old bound journal more than 12 years ago when I have not
graduated from my elementary school...

 

[John Doe]

there may be an ISA or a PCI slot on the sound card for the connection
with the CD-ROM more 15 years ago,

That is what I said. Are you having trouble with translation again?

but when I was googling it I could not get any result.

Maybe because Google sucks.

 

[Z]

Shouldn't it be English Grammar?  This is inclusive and the term for
proper usage of both phrase and sentence. If Grammar is not your strong
suite, then shouldn't you refrain from critiquing another's writing skills?

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Ah, I also found this:

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Some people like to blame others for their own shortcomings.

It's the nature of folly to see the faults of others and forget his
own.-------Cicero

When you point a finger at someone else's fault. you should bear it in
mind that you have three fingers pointing back at yourself.

and even
Comrade Mao, like any other man, had his defects and made errors.

but
Don't throw stones at your neighbors', if your own windows are glass.

so I've mentioned my faults. Well, I find I'd like to talk using
examples, it seems cool.

 

[Jon Danniken]

on the back of the CD-ROM there is a interface which is to be
connected to the sound with an audio cable to play the sound from CDs
through the sound card when the internal bus speed(PIO) is not high
enough or the CPU is not computable enough, I'm not very sure of the
reason.

Yes, this is true. I believe it was with a Pentium, I would bog down the
machine using Media Player (through digital bus) to play CDs. The solution
was to install the analog audio cable from the CDROM to the sound card, and
use the CDPlayer application.

By taking the load off of the processor, the machine ran smoothly without
any problems.

Jon